RedMon - Redirection Port Monitor EE
Transparent PostScript printing from Windows NT, W2K and XP.
Overview
The RedMon EE port monitor redirects a special printer port to a program.
RedMon EE is commonly used with Ghostscript and a non-PostScript printer to
emulate a PostScript printer.
RedMon EE can be used with any program that accepts data on standard
input.
Using RedMon EE you create a redirected printer port. If you connect a
Windows printer driver to the redirected printer port, all data sent to the
redirected port will be forwarded by RedMon to the standard input of a
program. The output of this program can be sent to different printer port, or
the program can generate whatever output it desires.
A PostScript Windows printer redirected to a RedMon port can shared on a
network. When this printer is configured to use Ghostscript and a non-PostScript
printer, it appears as a PostScript printer to other network clients.
The RedMon EE online help is available in
English
Note: this is a preview of what's comming up !
Availability
RedMon EE will work under Windows NT 4.0, W2K and XP.
Source code will be included in the final release.
Early Release 1.8.0 is here:
The package contains now redfile, redrun et.al.
This is the early release still with debug code and unfinish documentation
RedMon EE does not support Win95, Win98, WinMe and NT 3.5x !
RedMon 1.8.0 EE is still not a german language Version !
Fixed issues and features
- On Windows Terminal Server or Windows XP with fast user switching, the
"Prompt for filename" dialog will appear on the current session.
- "SaveAs" now shows XP style dialogs if running under XP
- Support for PDF Security added - experimental -.
- Support for setting the task priority - experimental -
- Use of file-shares as output
- Environment variables are passed to the AfterWorks Process now.
- Environment variables are replaced in the program arguments. No
workaround is needed.
- RedMon EE comes with an RPC communication feature which could transfer
output-files back to the client starting the print job on a print server.
Error messages will be send to the client.
- Redmon EE may start a process after the print job has finished (After works process).
e.g. starting a presentation program to show the pdf generated by GhostScript.
- additional debug messages may be written for error analysis.
No special debug version is needed.
- user interface has been rewritten. May be it's more friendly.
Added some basic system information which may help if running in failures.
- new feature: running on a print server.
- cleanup of documentnames "Microsoft -"
- define templates for output-file names with full environment variable substitution
e.g. %homedrive%\%homedir%\%redmon-user%-%date%-%time%-%n.pdf
- RedMon EE does not support for NT 3.5 and Windows 95/98 !
Bug list RedMon EE
- 1.8.0 Add priority settings and write to file-share 15.10.05
- 1.8.0 Bugfix for environment setting 09.09.05
- 1.8.0 Bugfix for Config-Switch "Running in Print Server" 11.07.05
- 1.8.0 Bugfix for RunAsUser Windows XP and WTS (!) 13.03.05
with integrated support for PDF Security Settings
- 1.8.0 Bugfix for RPC Server in Windows XP SP2 (!) 07.02.05
- 1.8.0 Cleanup Doc-Names now removes special characters 04.02.05
- 1.8.0 RunAsUser in AfterWorks may not work correct - fixed 26.11.04
- 1.8.0 RunAsUser may not work correct - fixed 24.11.04
- 1.8.0 problems in setup.exe (?), add missing uninstall programm - fixed 14.11.04
- 1.8.0 is rubbish und does not work - fixed 10.11.04
- add port/delete port may crash on NT4.0 - fixed 21.10.04
- no (more) bugs reported so far
Support Forum and discussion
RedMon EE Support forum RedMon EE forum
German Postscript Forum rumborak.de
Is there a need to replace the redirected port by standard TCP/IP printing ?
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